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2011-07-13 India-Pakistan

Experts: US aid 'snub' to Pakistan blow to America

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Posted by Fred 2011-07-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1 said Maleeha Lodhi, a former Pak ambassador to the US "Cooperation cannot be coerced by punitive actions."

Worked before and is probably the only thing that really works since enlightened self interest is not an Islamic concept.

The United States threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" unless it cooperated in the US-led war on terror, President Pervez Musharraf said in an interview. "The intelligence director told me that (Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the stone age'," Musharraf said in the interview with the 60 minutes investigative news programme to be broadcast Sunday.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-13 01:16|| 2011-07-13 01:16|| Front Page Top

#2 See also PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUM > PANETTA DOCTRINE: "DECLARE VICTORY, BUT DON'T GO HOME".

IIUC ARTIC = Among other, infers that the US is covertly anticipating a scenario whereupon those MilTerr factions whom are not defeated 2011-2014 [2017?] may elect to abandon AFPAK = Pakistan post-2014 for elsewhere in CENTRAL, EAST, + SOUTH ASIA, ostensibly to rebuild + refurbish for future new Jihad, hence the US need post-2014 to still maintain a viable Troop Presence + espec DRONE STAGING BASES in AFGHANISTAN [Pak?] TO DEAL WID ANY POSSIBLE BREAKOUT OF MILTERR TROUBLES IN SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES OUTSIDE OF AFPAK.

As per PANETTA, in addition to SPECFORS/SPECOPS-led ground search missions the US will continue to use Afghan- andor PAK-based? UAVS to help hunt down + destroy remaining Al-Qaeda + other targeted MilTerr Leaders OUTSIDE OF AFGHANISTAN = AFPAK.

Yoohoo, "CROWN PRINCE" HAMZA BIN LADEN, I'm a'lookin at you kid.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-13 01:29|| 2011-07-13 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 Look at it this way: We STILL have the $800 million dollars in our pocket. And the Pakis were just going to steal most of it anyway.

They aren't our friends, Chuckie, they never were.

"Washington is a fickle ally who cant't be trusted."???

Pakistan needs to turn that rumpstick around. They really do.
We are talking Brillkreme Moslems here who take it under the table. We are taking MOSLEM values taken to the nth. We are talking an entire greaser CULTURE of gimme and bird of paradise fly up your nose. We are talking Osama living right next door to the paki equivalent of West Point and Sgt. Schultzing us with a straight face.

You want to go on sucking a bunch of paki Goons? And handing them your wallet with a smile? Lets play for real. Give us what we want or we cut your belt off and pull down your pants and give you to Mustapha the Organ there. How bad do you want it to feel?

Posted by de Medici 2011-07-13 05:44|| 2011-07-13 05:44|| Front Page Top

#4 The "Experts" are just afraid of the gravy train pulling out. It's not like the aid money was actually buying something.

Posted by Spot 2011-07-13 07:47|| 2011-07-13 07:47|| Front Page Top

#5 Let their old friends the communist Chinese give them a hand ~~with something other than electronic bomb technology and components~~. We're tapped out!

Posted by Besoeker on the road again 2011-07-13 07:57|| 2011-07-13 07:57|| Front Page Top

#6 I think that all this threat of holding back aid money is just posturing. I will believe it when I see it.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2011-07-13 11:27|| 2011-07-13 11:27|| Front Page Top

#7 There's only problem with holding back one third of aid. It means we're still handing them two thirds of the aid with no quesitons asked as they lie to us and assist our enemies.

Posted by AuburnTom 2011-07-13 14:17|| 2011-07-13 14:17|| Front Page Top

#8 We should be funding India to break up this unholy nation into four manageable states.

Posted by Paul D 2011-07-13 15:25|| 2011-07-13 15:25|| Front Page Top

#9 ...break up this unholy nation into four manageable states.

Or three manageable states and a very large car park.

Posted by SteveS 2011-07-13 17:56|| 2011-07-13 17:56|| Front Page Top

#10 "Or three manageable states and a very large car park."

Or no states and an extremely large car park, Steve.

Posted by Barbara 2011-07-13 18:11|| 2011-07-13 18:11|| Front Page Top

#11 I keep saying, we need to utterly CRUSH Pakistan, and divide it between India and Afghanistan along the Indus River. There's absolutely no need to KEEP Pakistan. Let the dope-heads all congregate in Quetta under Afghanistani control. Run the Sindhs into the ocean. Flush the Punjabis. No great loss, the lot of them. It would solve the Kashmir problem - the Kashmir is on the Indian side of the Indus. It would solve the Pashtun problem - they'd all be in Afghanistan. There wouldn't be any more Pakistanis to flood the US and Europe, especially Britain. Those there would have to declare new citizenship. Britain should make sure it's NOT British. I don't see any drawbacks, except for the Pakistanis, and who gives a ^%$&^ about them?

Posted by Old Patriot 2011-07-13 20:45|| 2011-07-13 20:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Or no states and an extremely large car park

We would need a lot of popcorn for that, Barbara.

Still, it might be a more productive use for the land. After the radiation dies down, I mean.

Posted by SteveS 2011-07-13 20:57|| 2011-07-13 20:57|| Front Page Top

#13 "We would need a lot of popcorn for that, Barbara."

I've got plenty of room on my siding for extra boxcar-loads, Steve.

Just sayin'. ;-p

Posted by Barbara 2011-07-13 21:20|| 2011-07-13 21:20|| Front Page Top

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